Company Owner’s Negligible Value Claim Unsuccessful
When an asset falls in value to the point that it is almost worthless, it may be possible to make a negligible value claim under Section 24 of the Taxation...
Continue readingMost people know that when someone is injured in an accident caused by an uninsured driver, compensation is still available. However, when an insured person has given an uninsured...
Continue readingWhen Devon County Council put forward its proposals for funding elderly care, a number of care homes considered that the amount of finance being provided per person was so inadequate...
Continue readingThe treasurer of a Christian charity has been jailed after he stole more than £500,000 from two charities. Accountant Steven Methuen was responsible for the finances of Amblecote Christian...
Continue readingA judge has refused to rectify a land transfer between an elderly farmer and his son after rejecting the former’s plea that he had intended the latter only to receive...
Continue readingPolice have been given a new power to protect the public from unscrupulous wheel clampers. Under the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012, it is now a criminal offence to...
Continue readingWhere a claim has no serious chance of success, the court may order it to be ‘struck out’. When this occurs, the claim fails absolutely. The court has the right...
Continue readingMistakes are mistakes, but in law, when a legal claim is made, the fact that a mistake was made is only the first step to obtaining damages. The second step...
Continue readingThe general rule that in litigation the loser pays the winner’s legal costs does not always apply, as a successful claimant found recently. The claim was made in the...
Continue readingA company director whose company provided services to a charity of which he was a trustee found himself faced with a claim from the charity that he was liable to...
Continue readingAn Italian man who thought he had won £650,000 playing an online game that turned out to be affected by a software bug will get none of his winnings after...
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